James Kopp
40 Cal
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- Oct 14, 2020
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THAT HAPPEN WHEN I GO SWIMMMING IN COLD WATERJust remember if your balls are wrinkled it is too cold. Turn up the temp.
THAT HAPPEN WHEN I GO SWIMMMING IN COLD WATERJust remember if your balls are wrinkled it is too cold. Turn up the temp.
My Lyman ladle holds enough to pour two .54 balls. I'm not after production here just a few round ball cast by a fire is the whole idea. if I want production I break out the 10 or 20LB pot and 6 cavity mold .The bottom pour ladle from Lyman is a little small. I have one and used it for casting from an electric furnace for many years and it does work well. Waage (two a) makes VERY mice bottom pour ladles in 1# and up capacities that cost only a little more. I highly recommend them.
https://waage.com/search-results.html?q=ladle+bottom+pour
I bought from them direct and think maybe one of those would serve well for a melting pot over a fire.
I recall reading about colonial era native muzzleloading in Africa. Those guys would pry the ball out of the animal and sorta pound it back into more or less caliber and reload. Of course they were likely shooting at parlor room distances.
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